Gadaffi, Ghazni, Hamas, Hizbullah, Mussolini, Mugabe, Kaunda, Karzai, Fazlullah, Al-Assad are all the same to me,You want your voice to be heard, your seat in the EU, your place in the UN, everytime you fight for your land, I experience land mines, artillery, air strikes, acts of vengeance, aggression, AK 47s. A new Armageddon.

I am immune to your missiles, your mortar shelling, your maelstrom of chaos, your military show of might, your threat of martial law.

With every act of your rebellion, revolution and resistance, I am the remnant, the residue, the repurcussion. Everytime you massacre me, I reappear.

In another country. In another crossfire of conflict.

I’m so done with your wars, and your Weapons of Mass Destruction.

I want to live, I want to love, I want to lie about, I want to laze.

I’m so done growing up before my time. And dying before I should.

I’d like to be born in a crib, a crèche, a cradle. Not be a coffin in a cemetery.

I am Gaza. I am Palestine. I am Damascus.

I’m done being damned. I’m done being doomed.

Rahul da Cunha is an adman, theatre director/playwright, photographer and traveller. Reach him at rahuldacunha62 @gmail.comThe views expressed in this column are the individual’s and don’t represent those of the paper.